"Battle Lines Harden Over Big Oil’s Role at Climate Talks in Dubai"
"The hosts of the United Nations global climate summit later this year aim to give fossil fuel companies a bigger voice, despite loud objections."
Source: NYTimes, 06/15/2023
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House Votes To Block Biden Efficiency Proposal For Gas, Electric Stoves
"The House voted Wednesday to bar the Energy Department from moving forward with a proposed rule governing efficiency requirements for both gas and electric cooking appliances."
Source: The Hill, 06/15/2023PacifiCorp Could Owe Billions After Verdict In Devastating Oregon Wildfires
"A jury on Wednesday ordered the electric utility PacifiCorp to pay punitive damages for causing devastating wildfires in Oregon in 2020 — on top of an earlier verdict already expected to amount to billions of dollars."
Source: AP, 06/15/2023"White House Sets Fast Pace For Energy, Climate Rules"
"The Interior and Energy departments will spend the coming months trying to cement some of the White House’s critical energy ambitions, ahead of an election year in which Republicans are likely to attack President Joe Biden’s focus on boosting renewables and cutting planet-warming emissions."
Source: E&E News, 06/15/2023"House Votes To Restrict Feds From Banning Or Regulating Gas Stoves"
"The House on Tuesday voted in favor of preventing the Consumer Product Safety Commission from banning gas stoves and also limiting the safety agency’s ability to regulate the products."
Source: The Hill, 06/14/2023Kerry Skeptical of Oil Firms' Claims That Tech Will Handle Greenhouse Gases
"U.S. climate envoy John Kerry on Tuesday urged the world to be “very skeptical” about claims from oil and gas producers that emerging technology soon will allow people to adequately capture the climate-wrecking fumes emitted by their cars, planes and businesses."
Source: AP, 06/14/2023"North Carolina Republicans Send Green Investment Ban To Governor"
"A ban on green investing has cleared North Carolina’s GOP-controlled legislature as part of a broader Republican crusade against big businesses that champion sustainability and workplace diversity."
Source: AP, 06/14/2023NC Lawmakers OK Bill Blocking Local Government Energy Fuel Prohibitions
"The North Carolina General Assembly gave final approval Tuesday to legislation that would prohibit local governments from adopting ordinances preventing the expansion of certain energy services based on fuel type — one of two energy bills the legislature could wrap up this week."
Source: AP, 06/14/2023UN Mulls Limiting Influence of Fossil Fuel Industry at Global Climate Talks
"Politically, a growing number of civic groups, as well as elected officials in several countries, say the growing influence of fossil fuel companies in the climate negotiations threatens the UNFCCC’s fundamental credibility, as well as its ability to help rein in the emissions from burning oil, gas and coal."
Source: Inside Climate News, 06/13/2023"Fossil Fuel Company Net Zero Plans 'Largely Meaningless,' Report Says"
"The number of fossil fuel companies setting net-zero emissions targets has risen sharply over the past year, but most fail to address key concerns, making them "largely meaningless", a report showed on Monday."
Source: Reuters, 06/13/2023"Protest Derails Chaco National Park Celebration"
"It was supposed to be a homecoming of sorts for U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, after her agency spent many months hosting public meetings and talking with Native American leaders about curbing the pace of oil and gas development in the San Juan Basin and protecting culturally significant sites."
Source: AP, 06/13/2023"States Sue DuPont, 3M in Search of Funds for PFAS Cleanup Costs"
"States facing mounting costs over the cleanup of “forever chemicals” have directed their attention at chemical manufacturers, with a flurry of lawsuits coming as the companies reach large settlements over similar pollution claims."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 06/12/2023UN Paris Meeting Presses Ahead With Binding Plastics Treaty — US Resists
"At a May-June meeting in Paris, the United Nations Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) agreed to create, and submit by November, a first draft of an international plan to end plastic pollution by 2040. The United States declined to join the 58-nation “High Ambition Coalition” to create a legally-binding cradle-to-grave plan to address plastic production and use."
Source: Mongabay, 06/12/2023"Where Republican Presidential Candidates Stand on Climate Change"
"As wildfires in Canada have sent masses of smoke over the United States this week, engulfing much of the Northeast in a yellow haze of hazardous air pollution, scientists are clear that we are seeing the effects of climate change. But the Republicans campaigning for the presidency have largely downplayed the issue and rejected policies that would slow rising temperatures."
Source: NYTimes, 06/09/2023"Most Nations Aiming For Net-Zero Emissions Fail To Meet Targets: Study"
"A new scientific assessment of government commitments to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions found most lack credibility and would put the world on track to experience catastrophic global warming by the end of this century."
Source: Bloomberg, 06/09/2023
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